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Apr

9

Councilwoman Confused By This ‘Parody’

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City Council recently passed Blondell Reynolds Brown’s bill requiring licensing and regulation of Center City tour guides, and Phillymag recently interviewed her about it.

In addition to doing poorly on a Philadelphia history quiz — tsk, tsk! — Brown also… well, you read.

I think the real question here is, why not let tourists believe everything we tell them about our history? It sounds so much cooler if guides say the Declaration of Independence was actually penned by Bruce Springsteen.

Put that in a movie. What do you call it when you take an experience and make fun of it?

… A parody?
A parody! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put it in a parody first and then tell the real story. That’s really not a bad idea. Especially for Bruce Springsteen fans, of which I am one.

Whoo! Thanks, Councilwoman, from saving us from faulty tour guides who tell us Ben Franklin was on the 1983 Sixers with your licensing program and its nonrefundable application fee. The only thing that’d make this bill worthwhile is if the test costs enough to put Ride the Ducks out of business.

Philly Grill: Tour Guide Disciplinarian Blondell Reynolds Brown [Phillymag]
 
dmac | 4:30 PM | 2 Comments
Blondell Reynolds Brown, City Council, Parodies, Tour Guide Regulation
 
  1. duckfan Says: Apr 9 5:22 PM

    that would be a shame because I recently returned from visiting the city and thoroughly enjoyed my duck ride.

  2. Philly Chit Chat Says: Apr 10 10:23 AM

    It’s just like the stories told by the nuns in Catholic elementary school when they said the animals talked when Jesus was born, but later when we are in high school we were told they really didn’t talk, it was just parable they told us so we grasp that it really was a miracle when Christ was born?

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